30. Ivy

Chapter 30

Ivy

I can not believe our luck. Stanley is hiding not twenty minutes from the compound's front gate. The guild says he's alone except two guards out front and the bitch he's fucking.

I'm riding when I hear King in my head, "Testing. Can you all sound off. Need to know this worked."

One by one, the guys say a number which I know to be their rank in the club. I debate a moment what to say. Seven or… "Uno."

"You've been replaced King." Jax laughs.

"Only for her. Seven," he says, causing whistles and hollering in my head. Fuck this is going to take time to get used to.

"Guys… please. One at a fuckin time. This is the fuckin weirdest shit ever."

"Agree," they all voice as one. That's only slightly better than everyone talking at once. At least it was just one word, but still.

" Where to?" King asks. As I stop within view of a small hacienda. I cut Scar's engine behind a tree and wait for the guys. They follow suit.

I'm trying to get a lay of the small place when King asks, "Here? You're telling me he's here? This close?"

I turn and kiss his cheek. "Yep." I pop the P. "Even better is there's only two guards and his bitch." I smile.

Jax scowls. "Positive? Sure it's not another trap?"

I raise an eyebrow. "One way to find out." I start walking up the drive like I own the place.

King yells in my head, "Someone remind me to bust that sweet ass when we get home."

I chuckle and keep walking. I focus on the door but hear King giving off orders. Beck gets told to wait with Kira again. Makes me wonder if something's wrong with him. Does he not fight? DJ and King will come in behind me in two minutes. And Jax and Neo are supposed to shift and come in from the back of the house.

Sure enough, about two hundred yards from the house I hear two guns chamber. A voice to my left says, "Stop right there, bitch."

I would be offended but there's a thud not two seconds later and DJ says, "Dead."

"Second down. Ivy, don't…" King starts but I don't listen to the rest. I'm already getting good at tuning these guys out. That's awesome.

I march right through the front door. "Honey, I'm home." I draw out the last word. "Oh, Stanley… come out, come out wherever you are!" I sing as I walk through the house.

DJ and King practically run through the door growling. I roll my eyes at them. King opens his mouth to say something when there's a gunshot and a deafening roar outside. I get a sharp pain in my arm and hear DJ and King both curse.

Without hesitation, I run through the house to find the back door's open. Once outside, I search for Neo and Jax, unsure which was shot. However, I'm so pissed, I almost miss a body fly through the air and a pincher on the other side of the small yard catching him. As I watch the show, Beck pulls up, parks and joins us.

When it registers what's happening, I do the only logical thing. I burst out laughing. "Boys… stop playing with our prey."

King and DJ step up on either side of me. "Jax's scorpion has a thing for traumatizing its victims."

I wipe a tear from my face. "Jax's scorpion. Can you please bring Shitface here?" I wait watching as the limp body goes up in the air once more.

"I guess no kiss for Jax's beast," I sigh, and watch as the scorpion walks out from a giant Globe Willow carrying an unconscious Stanley. It drops him at my feet. I kick him to be sure he's still alive. He groans. Good not dead… yet.

Fuck stepping over him, I step right on his nut sack. Twisting my heel for good measure. I grin and walk up to Jax. "Hi again. Bring that sexy face down here, big guy."

It cocks its head and does as I ask. I put a hand on each side of its massive head and plant a kiss right between its eyes. Those liquid depths close as I pull back and I smile as I release his face. He purrs when I run my hand over the bullet wound and it closes up to a slight scar. I blink, then turn to see the rest of the guys standing around the unconscious body of Stanley. They're in various stages of shock.

"What?" I ask, being a bit lost.

"Oh you um… he purrs?" Neo stammers pointing to Jax who has now shifted to human.

"Don't fucking start." He walks up to me from behind and places kisses on my neck. "You made my scorpion purr. He's never done that. He's always cranky, but you tamed him."

"Oh… um ok." Not sure what to do or say now.

King breaks the tension. "Let's get this asshole home and get some answers."

Jax lets go of me and walks over to Stanley. He growls and I see his skin ripple.

"No shifting big guy. We need to go."

He nods and bends over, grabbing Stanley by the hair and dragging him to Kira. He's not five feet away when the trunk opens. I grin. "That's my girl."

Jax throws Stanley in the trunk, which promptly closes and her engine revs to life.

"Coming!" Beck yells and jumps in. They start down the drive.

King walks up, wrapping an arm around my waist. "You know I still have so many questions about that ca… Kira . But let's go home and get our answers from Stanley."

I grin. Home, hmm I like the idea of a home with these… sexy… dangerous men.